Collections-Virtual Museum of Images and Sounds

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Date: 1759-1806 CE

Subject: Exterior, View of dome with inverted lotus

Site Name:

Date: 1000-1099 CE

Subject: Vaisnavai, matrka

Site Name:

Date: 900-999 CE

Subject: Matrka, seated

Site Name:

Date: 1759-1806 CE

Subject: Exterior, Dome resting on square brick structure

Site Name: Khajuraho

Date: 1002 CE

Subject: Pradaksinapatha, Indra with Sachi

Site Name:

Date: 1779-1780 CE

Subject: Interior, Domed ceiling and clerestory

Site Name:

Date: 1759-1806 CE

Subject: Exterior, east side showing three engrailed arched springing from pillars

Site Name:

Date: 1759-1806 CE

Subject: Interior, view of plain chamber

Site Name:

Date: 1759-1806 CE

Subject: General view

Site Name:

Date: 1779-1780 CE

Subject: General view

Site Name:

Date: 1779-1780 CE

Subject: General view

Site Name: Bhuj

Date: 301-500 CE

Subject: Lajja Gauri: This image of Lajja Gauri is completely anthropomorphic with a human female head and all parts, with legs in uttanapad (birth giving) pose and arms held up to the side.

Site Name: Borica

Date: ca 600-699 CE

Subject: A view

Site Name: Sannati

Date: 301-400 CE

Subject:

Lajja Gauri: This representation of Lajja Gauri is in the form of uttanapad (birth giving position) pot-goddess. It is personified purna kumbha, or brimming vase of fortune. The legs are joined to a truncated torso that may be perceived either as the pudendum, belly, and lower rib cage of a female figure or a traditional purna kumbha.

Site Name:

Date: Late 601-700 CE

Subject: Lajja Gauri carved on path to the Lakulisa temple at Siddhanakolla. This image of Lajja Gauri is lotus headed with a human female body. A cloth is threaded through her legs and behind her back, which is a detail of her iconography consistently included by the Early Chalukya artists. She wears anklets, bracelets, channavira (cross-chest belt), and has her feet flexed up, showing their soles. The legs are in uttanapad (birth giving) pose, the arms are held up by the sides of the lotus head with a bud in each hand and the torso includes breasts. The Chalukyan image is in its original location and is visited by childless women or couples seeking the blessing of fertility.

Site Name: Mathura

Date: 300-399 CE

Subject: Kubera with Lakshmi and Hariti, seated found from Manoharpur (Mathura)

Site Name: Siddhanakolla

Date: Late 601-700 CE

Subject: Lajja Gauri carved in relief from the rock floor of a natural grotto at the Lakulisa temple at Siddhanakolla. This image of Lajja Gauri is lotus headed with a human female body. A cloth is threaded through her legs and behind her back, which is a detail of her iconography consistently included by the Early Chalukya artists. She wears anklets, bracelets, channavira (cross-chest belt), and has her feet flexed up, showing their soles. The legs are in uttanapad (birth giving) pose, the arms are held up by the sides of the lotus head with a bud in each hand and the torso includes breasts. The Chalukyan image is in its original location and is visited by childless women or couples seeking the blessing of fertility.

Site Name:

Date: Late 601-700 CE

Subject: Lajja Gauri: This image of Lajja Gauri is lotus headed with a human female body. The legs are in uttanapad (birth giving) pose, the arms are held up by the sides of the lotus head with a bud in each hand and the torso includes breasts.

Site Name: Siddhanakolla

Date: 701-800 CE

Subject: Lajja Gauri: This representation of Lajja Gauri is in the form of uttanapad (birth giving position) pot-goddess. It is personified purna kumbha, or brimming vase of fortune. The legs are joined to a truncated torso that may be perceived either as the pudendum, belly, and lower rib cage of a female figure or a traditional purna kumbha. The potlike lower torso is topped by a lotus flower. The vase brimming with lotus flowers is a traditional symbol of fortune, life and procreative power.